Energy integration describes sound-intensity coding in an insect auditory system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 10434-10448

  Gollisch, Tim ^a   Schütze, Hartmut ^b   Benda, Jan ^c   Herz, Andreas V M ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory receptor; Energy; Hearing; Locust; Mechanosensory transduction; Model; Sound intensity; Spectral integration

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LOCUST; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUND INTENSITY; STEADY STATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0036896362     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-23-10434.2002     Document Type: Article

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